Corner-block for billiard and pool tables



(No Model.)

T. CLARK. CORNER BLOCK FOR BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES.

Patented Aug. 6,1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS CLARK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORNER-BLOCK FOR BILLIIARID AND POOL TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,584, dated August 6, 1889.

Application filed December 5, 1888- Serial No. 292,731. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corner-Blocks for Billiard and Pool Tables, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My inventionconsists of a corner-block for a billiard and pool table of novel construction,

as will be hereinafter fully set forth and as to coincide with the cushions 2 of a'billiardtable.

Projecting outwardly'from the angle of the plate is a boss A, within which is a nut 3, the periphery whereof is grooved, forming a neck 4, into which projects the point of a screwv 5, whereby said nut is swiveled to said boss. On the periphery of the nut is head 6, which is corrugated, milled, &c., for convenience in rotating said nut.

B designates a screw, whichis fitted in the threaded opening of the nut and carrying a hook O, which engages with the bow 7 over the pocket of the table, whereby the plate is connected with said bow. In this condition of parts the game may be played without the pockets of the table, as well known in such erly rotating the nut, which can readily be accomplished, owing to the head 6, which is between the boss and the hoolg and projects above the device, the screw emerges sufficiently from the same so that the hook may be raised from the bow and the plate with the connected parts removed from the table, whereby the game may be played with the pockets. WVhen the plate is again returned to the corner of the table and the hook fitted on the bow, the nut is rotated so that the screw enters the nut to a greater extent, thus tightening the hook on the bow and clamping the plate with its cushions in the corner of the table-and causing the continuity of the cushions of the table.

I am aware that it is not new to secure a corner-piece to a billiard-table by means of a screw and clamp hook, and such I do not claim; but I am not aware that the peculiar construction herein set forth is old, wherein the corner-piece is provided with a cushion and a boss having a rotatable nut fitted therein, the said nut being provided with a head and having a screw working thereon and provided with a clamping-hook adapted to engage the bow of the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and -desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A corner-block for the purpose stated, consisting of an angular plate with a boss projecting from the angle thereof, a nut having a neck with a peripheral groove and provided with a head, a screw passing through the boss into said groove, and a screw working in said nut and having a hook connected therewith, thehead of the nut being between the boss and hook, said parts being combined substantially as described.

THOMAS CLARK.

I/Vitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEnERsHEIM, JAMES F. KELLY. 

